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Six example sentences with alkene, each labelled with its topic.
Ethene is the simplest alkene, and its double bond between two carbon atoms makes it eager to react.
Science
Ripening bananas release an alkene gas that will hurry along every avocado sharing the same paper bag.
Cooking
Polymer plants heat crude fractions to crack them into alkene feedstock, the raw material behind most plastic packaging.
Technology
Pine forests release isoprene, a small alkene that reacts in sunlight and adds to the summer haze over the hills.
Environment
Ethylene, the simplest alkene, is traded by the tonne, and its price tracks the cost of the natural gas it is cracked from.
Economics
Chemists first made an alkene in 1795 by dehydrating ethanol, and called it olefiant gas because it formed an oily liquid.
History
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